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Battle for Musamonis

Too bad so many people withdrew I planned on creating a map focussing on the military units. To practise a little on making nice unit-icons and not so much focussing on the actual map. And I wanted it in a steampunk theme. While working I got carried away with the border and now have the basic map and a lot of border-effects. Still have to figure out how to put the actual unit icons I created in there in a way it looks ok cheers, DJ

Thanks guys. I had to finish this and didn't have as much time to really go crazy on the icons and finishing touches as I intended, but I got it together and learned a lot again making this map cheers, DJ